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- Wireless mobile communication technology uses various standards and protocols to transmit data between a node (e.g., a transmission station or a transceiver node) and a wireless device (e.g., a mobile device).
- a node e.g., a transmission station or a transceiver node
- a wireless device e.g., a mobile device.
- Some wireless devices communicate using orthogonal frequency-division multiple access (OFDMA) in a downlink (DL) transmission and single carrier frequency division multiple access (SC-FDMA) in an uplink (UL) transmission.
- OFDMA orthogonal frequency-division multiple access
- SC-FDMA single carrier frequency division multiple access
- OFDM orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing
- 3GPP third generation partnership project
- LTE long term evolution
- IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
- 802.16 standard e.g., 802.16e, 802.16m
- WiMAX Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access
- IEEE 802.11 which is commonly known to industry groups as WiFi.
- the node can be a combination of Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access Network (E-UTRAN) Node Bs (also commonly denoted as evolved Node Bs, enhanced Node Bs, eNodeBs, or eNBs) and Radio Network Controllers (RNCs), which communicate with the wireless device, known as a user equipment (UE).
- E-UTRAN Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access Network
- Node Bs also commonly denoted as evolved Node Bs, enhanced Node Bs, eNodeBs, or eNBs
- RNCs Radio Network Controllers
- the downlink (DL) transmission can be a communication from the node (e.g., eNodeB) to the wireless device (e.g., UE), and the uplink (UL) transmission can be a
- the node also called a macro node
- the cell can be the area in which the wireless devices are operable to communicate with the macro node.
- Heterogeneous networks HetNets
- HetNets can be used to handle the increased traffic loads on the macro nodes due to increased usage and functionality of wireless devices.
- HetNets can include a layer of planned high power macro nodes (or macro-eNBs) overlaid with layers of lower power nodes (small-eNBs, micro-eNBs, pico-eNBs, femto-eNBs, or home eNBs [HeNBs]) that can be deployed in a less well planned or even entirely uncoordinated manner within the coverage area (cell) of a macro node.
- the lower power nodes LPNs
- LPNs low power nodes
- small nodes small nodes, or small cells.
- the macro node can be used for basic coverage.
- the low power nodes can be used to fill coverage holes, to improve capacity in hot-zones or at the boundaries between the macro nodes' coverage areas, and improve indoor coverage where building structures impede signal transmission.
- Inter-cell interference coordination (ICIC) or enhanced ICIC (elCIC) may be used for resource coordination to reduce interference between the nodes, such as macro nodes and low power nodes in a HetNet.
- Time-division duplexing is an application of time-division multiplexing (TDM) to separate downlink and uplink signals.
- TDD time-division duplexing
- downlink signals and uplink signals may be carried on a same carrier frequency where the downlink signals use a different time interval from the uplink signals, so the downlink signals and the uplink signals do not generate interference for each other.
- TDM is a type of digital multiplexing in which two or more bit streams or signals, such as a downlink or uplink, are transferred apparently simultaneously as sub-channels in one communication channel, but are physically transmitted on different resources.
- FDD frequency- division duplexing
- FDD frequency- division duplexing
- interference can be avoided because the downlink signals use a different frequency carrier from the uplink signals.
- FIG. 1 illustrates a diagram of a heterogeneous network (HetNet) with a macro evolved Node B (eNB) in a macro cell and low power nodes (LPNs) of a small cell in accordance with an example
- FIG. 2 illustrates a uplink (UL) signal-to-noise-and-interference ratio (SINR) analysis for a user equipment served by a pico node (PUE) using various macro node and pico node subframe configurations in accordance with an example;
- UL uplink
- SINR signal-to-noise-and-interference ratio
- FIG. 3 illustrates a uplink (UL) signal-to-noise-and-interference ratio (SINR) analysis for a user equipment served by a macro node (MUE) using various pico node subframe configurations in accordance with an example;
- UL uplink
- SINR signal-to-noise-and-interference ratio
- FIG. 4 illustrates a uplink (UL) signal-to-noise-and-interference ratio (SINR) analysis for a user equipment served by a macro node (MUE) for various macro- to-pico and pico-to-pico pathgain thresholds in accordance with an example;
- UL uplink
- SINR signal-to-noise-and-interference ratio
- FIG. 5 illustrates a percentage of pico cells that operate synchronously with a macro node for various macro-to-pico grouping thresholds in accordance with an example
- FIG. 6 illustrates a diagram of uplink-downlink (UL-DL) adaptation set for small cells in accordance with an example
- FIG. 7 illustrates a diagram of uplink (UL) traffic offloading to facilitate usage of downlink (DL) favored configurations at pico cells in accordance with an example
- FIG. 8 illustrates a diagram of downlink (DL) traffic offloading and DL subframe muting to facilitate usage of uplink (UL) favored configurations at pico cells in accordance with an example
- FIG. 9 illustrates a diagram of DL and UL traffic offloading and muting of downlink (DL) macro subframes for dynamic UL-DL reconfiguration at pico cells in accordance with an example
- FIG. 10 illustrates a file transfer protocol (FTP) packet arrival rate and downlink (DL) packet throughput comparison using traffic offloading from macro cells to small cells and interference management and traffic adaptation (IMTA) among pico cells in accordance with an example;
- FTP file transfer protocol
- DL downlink
- IMTA interference management and traffic adaptation
- FIG. 11 illustrates a file transfer protocol (FTP) packet arrival rate and uplink (UL) packet throughput comparison using traffic offloading from macro cells to small cells and interference management and traffic adaptation (IMTA) among pico cells in accordance with an example
- FIG. 12 illustrates a functional block diagram of macro user equipment (MUE) traffic offloading from macro cells to small cells in accordance with an example
- FIG. 13 depicts a flow chart of a method for traffic offloading to generate a low interference flexible subframe (FlexSF) of an adaptive uplink-downlink (UL- DL) time-division duplexing (TDD) subframe configuration in a heterogeneous network (HetNet) in accordance with an example;
- FlexSF low interference flexible subframe
- UL- DL adaptive uplink-downlink
- TDD time-division duplexing
- FIG. 14 illustrates a block diagram of a macro node, a low power node (LPN), and a user equipment (UE) in accordance with an example
- FIG. 15 illustrates a diagram of a wireless device (e.g., user equipment
- FIG. 1 illustrates a heterogeneous network (HetNet) with a macro node 310 (e.g., macro evolved Node B (eNB)) in a macro cell and multiple low power nodes (LPNs) 320, 322, 324, and 326 (or small eNBs) in the respective small cells.
- a cell can refer to the node or the coverage area of the node.
- a low power node can refer to a small node, which can include a small eNB, a micro eNB, a pico node, a pico eNB, a femto-eNB, a home eNB (HeNB), a remote radio head (RRH), a remote radio equipment (RRE), or a remote radio unit (RRU).
- the term "small node” may be used interchangeably with the term “pico node” (or pico eNB)
- the term “small cell” may be used interchangeably with the term "pico cell” in the examples to assist in distinguishing between the macro node and the LPN or the small node, and the macro cell and the small cell.
- the macro node can be connected to each LPN via backhaul link 316 using X2 interface or optical fiber connections.
- the HetNet can include macro nodes 310 that can typically transmit at high power level, for example, approximately 5 watts (W) to 40 W, to cover the macro cell 350.
- the HetNet can be overlaid with low power nodes (LPNs) 320, 322, 324, and 326, which may transmit at substantially lower power levels, such as approximately 100 milliwatts (mW) to 2 W.
- LPNs low power nodes
- mW milliwatts
- a LPN can be used in hot spots or hot-zones, referring to areas with a high wireless traffic load or high volume of actively transmitting wireless devices (e.g., user equipments (UEs)).
- UEs user equipments
- a LPN can be used in a microcell, a picocell, a femtocell, and/or home network.
- a wireless device e.g., UE 320A-E, 330A-B, 332A-B, 334, and 336 can be served by the macro node 310 or one the LPN 320, 322, 324, and 326.
- Wireless devices can be described in relation to the cells (e.g., nodes) in a network.
- the HetNet can include a macro cell and four small cells.
- Wireless devices primarily served by the macro node 310 in the macro cell coverage area 350 can be referred to as macro UEs (MUEs) 320A-E.
- MUEs macro UEs
- Wireless devices primarily served by the small node 320, 322, 324, and 326 (e.g., LPN or pico node) in the small cell coverage area 360, 362, 364, and 366 can be referred to as pico UEs (PUEs) 330A-B, 332A-B, 334, and 336.
- PUEs pico UEs
- HetNet deployments have been recognized to offer efficient means to increase cellular coverage and capacity compared to traditional homogeneous networks and may involve the co-existence of different radio access technologies, transmission-reception techniques, and base station (BS) transmission powers among other possible architectural combinations.
- BS base station
- Legacy LTE TDD can support asymmetric UL-DL allocations by providing seven different semi-statically configured uplink-downlink subframe configurations.
- Table 1 illustrates seven UL- DL configurations used in legacy LTE, where "D” represents a downlink (DL) subframe, "S” represents a special subframe, and "U” represents an uplink (UL) subframe.
- the special subframe can operate similar to downlink subframe relative to the transmission direction.
- UL-DL configuration 0 can include 6 uplink subframes in subframes 2, 3, 4, 7, 8, and 9, and include 4 downlink or special subframes in subframes 0, 1 , 5, and 6; and UL-DL configuration 5 can include one uplink subframe in subframe 2, and include 9 downlink or special subframes in subframes 0, 1 , 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9.
- the UL-DL configuration 0 can be considered an uplink favored UL-DL configuration
- UL-DL configuration 5 can be considered a downlink favored UL-DL configuration.
- Advanced UL-DL configuration may not constrain subframes 0 and 5 to be DL subframes, subframe 1 to be a special subframe, or subframe 2 to be an UL subframe.
- each subframe can allow opposite transmission directions, so subframes 0, 1 , 2, and 5 can be a DL, UL, or special subframe.
- cells e.g., macro cell and small cells
- the network can change the UL-DL configurations synchronously in order to avoid the interference with other cells.
- cells e.g., macro cell and small cells
- such a requirement can constrain the traffic
- the existing set of legacy TDD UL-DL configurations can provide DL subframe allocations in the range between 40% to 90%, as shown in Table 1 .
- the UL and DL subframes allocation within a radio frame can be reconfigured through system information broadcast signaling.
- the UL-DL allocation once configured may be expected to vary semi-statically, in an example.
- Predetermined or semi- statically configured UL-DL configurations may not match an instantaneous traffic situation resulting in inefficient resource utilization, especially in cells with a small number of users (e.g., UEs) that download or upload large amounts of data.
- Adaptive UL-DL configurations can be used to handle cell-dependent traffic asymmetry and match instantaneous traffic situations.
- new types of interferences including BS-to-BS and UE-to-UE interference can be generated.
- a type of interference that can impair functionality of the network can be the inter- cell DL->UL (BS-to-BS) interference, which may significantly reduce the benefits obtained from the adaptability of UL-DL configurations in different cells.
- the strong level of BS-BS (DL-UL) interference between macro cells (in a homogeneous network) or between a macro cell and small cells (in a HetNet) can make dynamic adaptation of UL-DL configuration difficult to implement.
- the LTE-TDD networks can align transmission directions of each subframe of the macro cells with the subframes of other cells so the cells work synchronously with each other, effectively avoiding DL-UL inter-cell interference.
- the adaptive change of UL-DL configurations at the lower power nodes can provide substantial increase of packet throughput to the LPN users, even after compensating for the additional interference.
- a dynamic adjustment of UL-DL configurations can be feasible for single operator macro-pico and macro-femto deployments when macro and low power nodes (e.g., pico nodes or femto nodes) operate in adjacent carrier frequencies.
- a dynamic adjustment of UL-DL configurations can also be feasible in scenarios where macro and LPNs work in a co-channel and LPNs adjust the UL-DL configuration to instantaneous traffic conditions.
- Some technical challenges in macro-pico co- channel scenario with dynamic adaptation of UL-DL configurations at pico stations can include the DL-UL interference on macro-pico and pico-pico links.
- Technology described herein can resolve or mitigate the DL-UL interference and provide effective applications to a macro-pico co-channel scenario with dynamic
- pico stations e.g., pico nodes
- FIGS. 2 and 3 illustrate a system level analysis of the impact of DL inter-cell interference on UL performance of pico UEs (PUEs) (in FIG. 2) and macro UEs (MUEs) (in FIG. 3) using an enhanced interference management and traffic adaptation (elMTA) geometry signal-to-noise-and-interference ratio (SINR) evaluation methodology.
- FIG. 2 illustrates the simulation results with UL SINR 800 analysis for pico UEs
- FIG. 3 illustrates the simulation results with UL SINR 806 analysis for macro UEs.
- the x-axis represents the SINR 802 measured in decibels (dB) and the y-axis represents the cumulative distribution function (CDF) 804.
- the CDF (or distribution function) in probability theory or statistics, describes a probability that a real-valued random variable X with a given probability distribution can be found at a value less than or equal to x.
- the simulation results show the UL SINR 800 (a measurement for interference) for PUE for two cases 810 and 812 where all the macro and pico nodes are active (i.e., full system loading), including a case 810 where 100% of the macro subframes are configured as UL subframes, and another case 812 where 100% of the macro subframes are configured as DL subframes. 100% of the pico subframes are configured as UL subframes during the UL to the PUE.
- the simulation results also show the SINR for a partial system loading case 814 where one-eighth (1/8) part of macro and pico cells is randomly activated, where 100% of the macro subframes are configured as DL subframes.
- the partial system loading case illustrates the potential interference environment at low system loadings.
- the simulation results show the UL SINR 806 for MUE for two cases 816 and 818 where all the macro and pico nodes are active, including a case 816 where 50% of the pico subframes are configured as DL subframes and 50% of the pico subframes are configured as UL subframes, and another case 818 where 100% of the pico subframes are configured as UL subframes. 100% of the macro subframes are configured as UL subframes during the UL to the MUE.
- the simulation results also show the SINR for a partial system loading case 820 where one-eighth (1/8) part of macro and pico cells is randomly activated, where 50% of the pico subframes are configured as DL subframes and 50% of the pico subframes are configured as UL subframes.
- FIGS. 2 and 3 An observation from the simulation results of FIGS. 2 and 3 can be that macro and pico cells can have a strong coupling on macro-pico links.
- the strong DL inter-cell interference from macro and pico stations i.e., nodes
- a poor UL SINR performance can be a bottleneck that can prevent dynamic adaptation of UL-DL configuration in macro-pico co-channels scenarios.
- Interference management and traffic adaptation (IMTA) methods can be used to efficiently resolve the DL-UL interference and extract benefits from traffic adaptation in the macro-pico co-channel scenario.
- methods such as isolated cell clustering interference mitigation (CCIM) and reduced transmit power on flexible subframes (FlexSF) can be used to mitigate DL-UL interference.
- CCIM isolated cell clustering interference mitigation
- FlexSF flexible subframes
- pico cells generating interference which can be determined using path-gains
- a specified (or predetermined) threshold are grouped or clustered together and operate using a same UL-DL configuration.
- Pico cells not generating interference or generating interference on each other below the specified (or predetermined) threshold can be considered as isolated from the other pico cell groups or clusters and operate independently of the other pico cell groups or clusters allowing the isolated pico cell or pico cluster to change the UL-DL configuration without coordination with other pico cell groups or clusters.
- the isolated CCIM method can be effective for pico-pico co-channel deployment scenario, but may not be as effective for macro-pico co-channel deployment scenarios.
- the isolated CCIM method can be potentially generalized for the case of macro-pico co-channel deployment to address the problem of DL inter-cell interference from pico cells on UL transmissions of macro UEs (MUEs).
- MUEs macro UEs
- the path-gains of pico- macro links can be measured and used to form clusters that consist from macro and/or pico cells.
- the pico cells that have a strong coupling with the macro cell can use a same UL-DL configuration as the macro cells and the remaining pico cells can be considered as isolated cells or can form isolated clusters from pico cells with a weak coupling with the macro cell.
- a drawback of macro-pico isolated CCIM can substantially limit the traffic adaptation capabilities of pico cells.
- FIG. 4 illustrates the macro UE UL SINR 808 based on various macro-pico path gain thresholds (XMP) 822-832 with a constant pico-pico path gain threshold (XPP).
- FIG. 4 shows that the UL SINR of the macro UEs can improve with the decrease of X M p.
- the UL SINR performance improves as more pico cells operate synchronously with the macro cells, as illustrated in FIG. 5.
- FIG. 5 illustrates a percentage 844 of pico cells that operate synchronously with a macro node 840 for various macro-to-pico grouping thresholds 842, measured in dB.
- the IMTA isolated cell clustering method may not be optimal for a macro- pico co-channel scenario.
- a FlexSF can be a subframe that may change transmission directions from one UL-DL configuration to another.
- the FlexSF can include subframes 2, 3, 4, 7, 8, and 9.
- the FlexSF can include any subframe that can change transmission directions from one UL-DL configuration to another (e.g., subframes 0-9).
- the negative impact from DL inter-cell interference from macro node on UL performance of pico UEs can be mitigated by reducing the transmission power on the FlexSF of macro stations.
- Offloading macro user traffic from the macro node to the pico node and subframe muting can be another IMTA technique to reduce the DL-UL interference and achieve performance gains in DL and UL packet throughput for the macro-pico co-channel scenario.
- using a reduced UL-DL adaptation set for pico cells (referred to as method 1 ) can reduce the DL-UL interference and achieve performance gains in DL and UL packet throughput for the macro-pico co-channel scenario.
- Offloading macro user traffic, muting macro subframes, and reducing the UL-DL adaptation set for pico cells can take into account inter-cell interference from macro cells, which inter-cell interference can prevent effective implementation of adaptive change of UL-DL configuration at pico cells.
- a reduced UL-DL adaptation set can be generated by applying subset constraint (i.e., method 1 ). For example, when macro cells operate in DL, the UL SINR of pico UEs can be negative even with low system loading, as shown in FIG. 2. An UL transmission can experience significant interference when macro stations (e.g., macro nodes) transmit DL signals. To avoid macro DL
- a reduced set of UL-DL configurations can be applied at a pico cell.
- the DL subframes of the macro cell can be a subset of pico cell DL subframes.
- each DL subframe of the macro cell can correspond to a DL or special subframe of the pico cell
- each UL subframe of the macro cell can correspond to a UL, DL, or special subframe of the pico cell.
- the DL subframe of pico cell can be a superset of the macro cell.
- FIG. 6 illustrates an example of a reduced UL-DL adaptation set of a pico cell based on a macro UL-DL configuration. If a macro cell use reference UL-DL configuration #1 (210) for radio frame 202, the pico cells may be allowed to use UL-DL
- configurations # 1 , 2, 4, 5 where macro UL subframes (configured to change transmission directions in other UL-DL configuration [other than subframe 2 in legacy LTE]) can be configured as flexible subframes (FlexSF) for the pico cell.
- the FlexSF can be used for either the UL or DL transmission at the pico cell.
- the FlexSF can include subframes 3, 7, and 8.
- the reduced adaptation set can mitigate the DL-UL interference for UL SINR of the pico UEs.
- the UL traffic adaptation capabilities at pico stations may be reduced and performance gains in UL against reference UL-DL configuration #1 may not be substantial.
- Applying UL favored TDD configurations at the macro cells e.g., TDD configuration 0 with 4:6 DL:UL ratio
- TDD configuration 0 with 4:6 DL:UL ratio
- Using UL-DL configuration 0 allows the pico cell to use all seven legacy UL-DL configurations in the pico UL-DL adaptation set, in which case the pico UL-DL adaptation set is not reduced.
- UL-DL configuration 5 can restrict the pico cell to one legacy UL- DL configuration (e.g., UL-DL configuration 5) in the pico UL-DL adaptation set, which may not provide any advantage over a synchronous macro-pico UL-DL configuration. So the pico UL-DL adaptation set can range from one to seven legacy UL-DL configuration(s), when legacy UL-DL configurations are used.
- legacy UL-DL configuration e.g., UL-DL configuration 5
- the pico UL-DL adaptation set can range from one to seven legacy UL-DL configuration(s), when legacy UL-DL configurations are used.
- the pico UL-DL adaptation set can be used to mitigate the impact of macro DL inter-cell interference on UL pico reception and also pico DL inter-cell interference on macro UL reception.
- the pico UL-DL adaptation set can provide a cross-cell interference coordination mechanism between macro and small cells (e.g., pico cells).
- Macro user traffic offloading and/or macro subframe muting (i.e., method 2) can be used both to mitigate the impact of macro DL inter-cell interference on UL pico reception and to mitigate the impact of DL inter-cell interference from pico cells on macro UL performance.
- deployment scenario that can reduce the effectiveness of dynamic UL-DL reconfiguration at pico cells can include strong DL inter-cell interference from macro cells on pico cell UL transmissions (affecting PUEs) and strong DL inter-cell interference from pico cells on macro cell UL transmissions (affecting MUEs).
- Strong DL inter-cell interference from macro cells can restrict the usage of pico cell UL transmission direction on DL subframes of macro cells.
- the strong DL inter-cell interference from macro cells can reduce improvements of UL packet throughput for pico cells when compared to reference UL-DL configuration.
- CCIM can be used to mitigate
- CCIM may not resolve a performance loss of macro UEs.
- User offloading mechanisms including offloading traffic from macro cells to pico cells, in combination with methods of muting DL macro subframes can be used to avoid or mitigate the DL-UL interference between macro and pico cells.
- Macro nodes serving the macro UEs can offload at least portion of the MUE traffic (e.g., a packet of the MUE) to pico cells, thus decreasing the load on the macro cell.
- the UL traffic and/or DL traffic can be offloaded from the macro node.
- the macro cells offload the macro UE uplink traffic to pico cells, little to no negative impact of DL inter-cell interference from the pico cells to the UL reception of the macro cells may occur since the UL traffic can be offloaded to the pico cells.
- DL favored UL-DL configurations can be applied at the pico cells without encountering the
- Offloading of the macro UE downlink traffic from the macro cells to the pico cells can have various positive effects.
- the pico cells can start applying the UL-favored UL-DL configurations that can increase UL packet throughput.
- the pico cells can use the DL subframes of the macro cells for UL transmission in the pico cells.
- Another benefit can be that offloading of the macro DL traffic can improve an overall interference environment in the network, which can also improve the DL throughput of the pico cell UEs.
- the DL subframes of macro cells can be considered as low interference (muted) subframes, so those subframes may not inject strong interference to the reception of traffic for the pico UEs.
- the macro to pico traffic offloading may be applied for UL only, DL only or for both DL and UL traffic.
- FIG. 7 illustrates an example of offloading UL macro traffic.
- FIG. 8 illustrates an example of offloading DL macro traffic.
- FIG. 9 illustrates an example of offloading both UL and DL macro traffic.
- a reference HetNet system can use a legacy UL-DL configuration #1 (212) in the macro cell and pico cells.
- legacy LTE UL-DL configurations subframes 3, 4, 7, 8, and 9 can be referred to as FlexSF, and fixed subframes 0, 1 , 2, 5, and 6 can be referred to as regular subframes.
- FIGS. 7-9 can be compared to the pico cells use dynamic adaptation of UL-DL configurations (FIG. 6) while the macro cells apply UL-DL configuration #1 .
- the traffic offloading may be applied to a portion of DL and/or UL traffic while the macro cell may continue serving the remaining MUEs in regular subframes with the fixed transmission direction.
- Advanced UL-DL configuration may not have a constraint on subframes with the fixed transmission direction.
- the offloading of the macro DL and/or UL traffic may allow additional traffic to be offloaded.
- the UL traffic can be offloaded from macro cells to pico cells 230.
- the subframes # 3, 7 and 8 can be freed up and used for the DL transmission at the pico cells without affecting uplink performance of the macro UEs.
- the usage of the DL-favored UL-DL configurations e.g., UL-DL
- UL-DL configurations 2, 3, 4, or 5 from the available UL-DL configurations 222 (e.g., UL- DL configurations 1 , 2, 3, 4, or 5) can substantially improve the DL packet throughput of pico UEs due to more flexible traffic adaptation capabilities at the pico cells.
- the macro UE can still serve some of the UL traffic in a remaining UL subframe #2 (using a legacy LTE UL-DL configuration).
- pico cells can use the DL-favored UL-DL configurations and apply CCIM or other interference mitigation methods to avoid DL-UL interference problem on pico links.
- FIG. 8 shows an opposite example when only DL macro traffic is offloaded from the macro cells 232 to pico cells.
- the macro cells can restrict or mute their DL transmissions on flexible subframes #4 and 9.
- FlexSF 4 and 9 can be considered as low interference subframes (or almost blank subframes [ABS]).
- ABS almost blank subframes
- the reduction of the DL inter-cell interference from the macro cells on those subframes 4 and 9 can facilitate the usage of UL favored UL-DL configurations # 0 and 6 (234) from the available UL-DL configurations 224 (e.g., UL-DL configurations 0, 1 , or 6), and thus substantially improve UL packet throughput at the pico cells.
- the DL throughput of the pico UEs can also be improved since the pico DL subframes 4 and 9 may not be limited by macro cell interference.
- the macro UE can still serve some of the DL traffic which was not offloaded.
- FIG. 9 illustrates a case when both DL and UL traffic is offloaded from macro cells 236 to pico cells.
- the whole set of UL-DL configurations 226 can be used for traffic adaptation at pico cells providing additional flexibility in terms of traffic adaptation.
- the DL-UL interference on pico-pico links can be resolved by using isolated CCIM or other interference mitigation techniques.
- the pico cells can use the whole set of UL-DL configurations and apply CCIM or other interference mitigation methods to avoid or reduce DL-UL interference.
- FIGS. 7-9 provide examples of macro traffic offloading and do not limit the scope of the invention.
- Traffic and/or user offloading can be used to extract benefits from dynamic UL-DL configurations and can be further extended to other UL-DL configurations, such as advanced UL-DL configurations.
- traffic can be offloaded from both flexible and regular subframes of the radio frame and also applied for other UL-DL configurations used at macro cells.
- all macro users can be offloaded to pico cells. If all MUEs are offloaded to pico cells, the macro cell transmissions can be muted (at least in terms of data transmissions) and thus the DL-UL inter-cell interference (impact of pico DL on macro UL and macro DL on pico UL) can be reduced significantly or almost avoided.
- the macro cells can continue serving some of the macro UEs (e.g. closely located UEs or farther away from the pico cells) in regular subframes of the radio frame.
- a hybrid scheme (i.e., method 3) can include using a combination of an UL-DL adaptation set at the pico cell (i.e., method 1 ) and macro user traffic offloading and/or macro subframe muting (i.e., method 2) by joint optimization.
- the combination of a reduced UL-DL adaptation set method and traffic offloading can be used to further increase the benefits of UL-DL
- the macro cell can attempt to offload the DL and/or UL heavy MUEs to the pico cell using method 2.
- the small cell e.g., pico cell
- the small cell can adopt the DL/UL configuration to increase the DL subframe allocation based on a subset constraint proposed by method 1 (e.g., UL-DL configuration 1 can switch to UL-DL
- the modification of the UL-DL configuration of the UL-DL adaptation set can be iteratively optimized to adjust to the time varying traffic conditions of the network. As traffic or other condition change (e.g., loading or coverage) some UE can switch back to the macro cell from the small cell (e.g., UL heavy UE due to the limited UL capacity in small cell or moving out of range of the small cell).
- traffic or other condition change e.g., loading or coverage
- some UE can switch back to the macro cell from the small cell (e.g., UL heavy UE due to the limited UL capacity in small cell or moving out of range of the small cell).
- the small cell e.g., pico cell
- the small cell can adopt a UL-DL configuration to decrease the DL subframe allocation based on the subset constraint of method 1 (e.g., UL-DL configuration 2 can switch to UL-DL
- a hybrid scheme (i.e., method 4) can include using a combination of method 1 , 2, and/or 3, and a CCIM method.
- the combination of the CCIM method and the method(s) 1 , 2, and/or 3 can be applied to improve the performance. For example, when the macro-pico interference is mitigated or avoided using the method(s) 1 , 2, and/or 3, the pico-pico interference may still exist.
- applying cell clustering approach e.g., CCIM method, which can divide the set of small cells (e.g. pico cells) into cell clusters according to some metric (e.g., inter-cell coupling loss)
- some metric e.g., inter-cell coupling loss
- the isolated cell clusters can be allowed to independently adapt their TDD configurations based on the instantaneous traffic conditions. So, each the cells inside one isolated cell cluster can use a same TDD configuration and ensure a same transmission direction, thus avoiding a negative impact of BS-BS
- FIGS. 10 and 11 illustrate downlink (DL) and uplink (UL) packet throughput 854 (measured in Megabits per second (Mbps)) comparison and performance analysis relative to a file transfer protocol (FTP) packet arrival rate 852 (measured in 1 /seconds (1/s) or Hertz (Hz)).
- FIGS. 10 and 11 illustrate the benefits of UL-DL reconfigurations for method(s) 1 , 2, 3, and/or 4, including user offloading from macro to pico cells.
- the simulation examples consider an idealistic case when all macro users are offloaded to pico cells during FlexSF. To take into account an increase of the amount of traffic at pico cells due to macro user offloading, the macro cell traffic is shared among four pico cells deployed in a macro cell sector.
- FIG. 10 illustrates the analysis of DL cell average packet throughput 850
- FIG. 11 illustrates the analysis of UL cell average packet throughput 856.
- Three cases are considered: Macro-pico co-channel case when all cells use reference UL-DL configuration #1 (i.e., Ref. UL-DL#1 ) 860 (FIG. 10) and 870 (FIG.
- macro-pico co-channel case when all macro UEs are offloaded to pico cells and all pico cells use reference UL-DL configuration #1 (i.e., Offloading UL-DL#1 ) 862 (FIG. 10) and 872 (FIG. 11 ); macro-pico co-channel case when all macro UEs are offloaded to pico cells and pico cells apply seven UL-DL configurations for traffic adaptation at pico cells and IMTA isolated cell clustering method to mitigate DL-UL interference (Offloading + IMTA, or method 4) 864 (FIG. 10) and 874 (FIG. 11 ).
- Offloading of macro UEs to pico cells can provide a substantial improvement of the DL inter-cell interference environment since macro DL subframes can be converted into low interference subframes (or almost blank subframes [ABS]).
- traffic adaptation capabilities at pico cells can be reduced due to slightly increased amount of traffic in pico cells, but the pico cells can start using the UL-favored or DL-favored configuration that can substantially improves traffic adaptation capabilities, which can generate an overall improvement of traffic adaptation capabilities.
- the offloading of macro UEs to pico cells 862 and 872 even without traffic adaptation can enable better DL and UL packet throughput performance compared to the reference case 860 and 870.
- the dynamic adaptation of UL-DL configurations at pico cells in combination with isolated cell clustering interference mitigation (CCIM) method 864 and 874 can further improve DL and UL packet throughput performance.
- CCIM isolated cell clustering interference mitigation
- FIGS. 10 and 11 when macro UEs are offloaded to pico cells, the dynamic UL-DL configuration can be beneficial even for a challenging macro-pico co-channel scenario.
- efficient macro user offloading mechanisms e.g., method 2
- interference management and traffic adaptation e.g., method 4
- Macro UE, user, and/or traffic offloading can be implemented in a semi- static or dynamic way.
- an LTE mechanism such as enhanced inter-cell interference coordination (elCIC), high interference indication (HII), or overload indication (Ol) can be applied.
- the elCIC mechanisms with large RSRP bias can be used to offload users from macro cells to pico cells.
- the macro nodes can coordinate an "ABS info pattern" among macro cells and apply the ABS info pattern for the HetNet.
- the overload indication (Ol) or high interference indication (H II) mechanisms can be reused jointly with a cell admission control mechanism.
- the macro cell can configure some of the DL subframes as multicastAbroadcast single-frequency network (MBSFN) subframes to minimize the interference from macro cells in the network.
- MBSFN multicastAbroadcast single-frequency network
- a network can support frequency domain inter-cell interference
- ICIC coordination coordination
- elCIC time domain enhanced ICIC
- ICIC can be used to decrease interference between neighboring cells or nodes (e.g., coordination nodes or cooperation nodes) by lowering the power of a part of the subchannels in the frequency domain which then can be received close to the node.
- the subchannels do not interfere with the same subchannels used in neighboring cells and thus, data can be sent to mobile devices with less
- Enhanced ICIC can be used in the time domain for heterogeneous networks (HetNets), where a high power macro cell can be complemented with low power nodes such as pico cells (hotspots in shopping centers or at airports) or femto cells (hotspots in small areas such as homes or businesses).
- the low power nodes can exist inside a macro cell coverage area.
- the macro cell can transmit long range high power signals, and the low power nodes can transmit low power signals over short distances.
- elCIC can coordinate the blanking of subframes in the time domain in the macro cell.
- Dynamic offloading can be performed depending on instantaneous traffic conditions in the network cells.
- the dynamic mechanisms can include
- a user in communication with the macro cell can monitor a link quality with the neighboring pico cells.
- the UE can measure a channel quality for different interference environments (e.g., regular or ABS subframes) and report a corresponding channel quality indicator (CQI) feedback for both macro and pico cells.
- CQI channel quality indicator
- the macro cell or central processing unit (CPU) or central processing module (CPM)
- CPU central processing unit
- CCM central processing module
- the CPU or CPM can be used as a baseband unit (BBU) for multiple node (e.g., eNBs) of the network (e.g., HetNet), such as in a centralized, cooperative, or cloud radio access network (C-RAN or CRAN).
- BBU baseband unit
- C-RAN cloud radio access network
- the dynamic approach can be implemented with CRAN architecture where processing of several cells can be performed by one CPU or CPM.
- the node functionality can be subdivided between a baseband unit (BBU) processing pool and a remote radio unit (RRU) or a remote radio head (RRH) with optical fiber connecting the BBU to the RRU.
- the C-RAN can provide centralized processing, co-operative radio, and real-time cloud infrastructure RAN.
- a dynamic point selection (DPS) approach can be applied and user (e.g., UE) can be configured to receive data from other cell.
- Dynamic point selection (DPS) allows dynamic offloading of traffic from the macro node to a LPN in a
- the traffic offloading in DPS can be achieved by adaptive re-selection of a serving point (e.g., from a macro node to a LPN) and applying resource blanking (e.g., on macro node) to suppress interference.
- DPS can be a dynamic extension of the semi-static cell range expansion (CRE) process and a time domain elCIC process.
- the scheduling for DPS can be conducted in centralized manner simultaneously for the macro node and the LPNs within one coordination set (e.g., CoMP cluster).
- the macro and pico cells can exchange the information on the UE DL/UL channel quality (e.g., CQI) in different interference environments (e.g. regular or muted ABS subframes) as well as current traffic buffer states to estimate the potential performance benefits and to make
- the combination of macro user offloading with isolated cell clustering (e.g., CCIM) of pico cells can represent a combination that enables dynamic adjustment of UL-DL configuration at the pico cells.
- Methods 1 -4 can substantially increase the DL and UL packet throughput for both macro and pico UEs in a DL-UL interference macro-pico co-channel deployment scenario.
- the UE offloading from the macro cells can substantially improve the DL inter-cell interference
- CRS cell reference signals
- ms millisecond
- FIG. 12 illustrates a functional block diagram for dynamic traffic offloading from the macro cell to the pico cell.
- Control information can be exchanged between the macro cell and neighboring pico cells 400.
- the macro cell can exchange control information with the neighboring pico cells to acquire information to make a determination on an efficiency of using traffic offloading.
- the control information can include: A current DL and UL buffer status of the pico cells; DL/UL cell spectral efficiency (SE) of the pico cells on regular and/or flexible subframes (FlexSF); pico cell capabilities to adapt TDD UL-DL configurations (e.g., current UL-DL configuration, UL-DL configuration adaptation set, or TDD configuration adaptation time scale); inter-cell path gains (between the macro cell and pico cells); or possibility to accept offloaded UEs (e.g., pico cell may indicate such possibility) if the pico cell is not overloaded.
- the information exchange can be done with some periodicity (e.g., 10 ms or 50 ms).
- the information exchange can be performed via X2 signaling or using centralized entity which gathers the information.
- a new DL or UL packet can appear at the UE served by the macro cell 402.
- the macro cell can get information on UE traffic requirements 404 (e.g., amount of data and/or a quality of service (QoS) parameter).
- the macro cell can command the UE to perform channel quality measurements to some of the neighboring pico cells, or remote radio heads (RRHs) 406.
- the channel quality measurements can be obtained, if the macro cell does not have updated measurements.
- the channel quality measurements can be obtained in advance and the macro cell may be aware of the channel quality before the user packet arrives.
- the UE can perform channel quality measurements on the pico-UE links and report the measurements to the macro cell 408.
- the macro cell can make a determination whether to offload the UE to the pico cell 410. Multiple criteria can be used to make the determination. For instance, the potential gain in the UE packet throughput can be estimated to make the determination.
- the pico cells can adapt the pico cell TDD UL-DL configuration to fit new traffic conditions, taking into account the traffic and UL-DL configuration used in the macro cell 414.
- the pico cell TDD UL-DL configuration can be adapted in accordance with the TDD configuration adaptation time scale.
- the DL packet can be transmitted from the pico cell to the UE or the UL packet can be transmitted from the UE to the pico cell 416.
- the DL packet can be transmitted from the macro cell to the UE or the UL packet can be transmitted from the UE to the macro cell 418 (e.g. using regular subframe).
- the network e.g., macro cell, pico cell, CPU, and/or CMU
- the network can revise the decision and return the UE to the macro cell or offload another UE.
- a similar procedure may be applied to transfer traffic from one pico cell to another pico cell to enable a more efficient traffic adaptation. For example, transferring traffic between pico cells can be beneficial when one of the pico cells is loaded and another has both DL and/or UL traffic.
- Another example provides a method 500 for traffic offloading to generate a low interference flexible subframe (FlexSF) of an adaptive uplink-downlink (UL- DL) time-division duplexing (TDD) subframe configuration in a heterogeneous network (HetNet), as shown in the flow chart in FIG. 13.
- the method may be executed as instructions on a machine, where the instructions are included on at least one computer readable medium or one non-transitory machine readable storage medium.
- the method includes the operation of monitoring a traffic loading metric at an evolved Node B (eNB) for a specified traffic loading condition, as in block 510.
- eNB evolved Node B
- UE user equipment
- the specified traffic loading condition can be determined from control information including a current downlink (DL) or uplink (UL) buffer status of the macro cell or the small cell, a DL or UL cell spectral efficiency of the small cell or the macro cell on subframes, a small cell capability to adapt UL-DL TDD configurations, an inter-cell path gain between the macro cell and the small cell, or a small cell capability to accept additional UEs.
- the FlexSF can include subframe 3, 4, 7, 8, or 9 (e.g., for legacy LTE UL-DL configurations), or a subframe configured to allow opposite transmission directions (e.g., for UL-DL configurations for other carrier types).
- the small eNB can include a low power node (LPN), a micro eNB, a pico eNB, a femto-eNB, a home eNB (HeNB), a remote radio head (RRH), a remote radio equipment (RRE), or a remote radio unit (RRU).
- LPN low power node
- micro eNB a micro eNB
- pico eNB a pico eNB
- a femto-eNB a home eNB (HeNB)
- RRH remote radio head
- RRE remote radio equipment
- RRU remote radio unit
- the operation of offloading the traffic of the macro cell can further include offloading uplink (UL) traffic when additional downlink (DL) subframes are requested by the small cell.
- the operation of offloading the traffic of the macro cell can further include offloading downlink (DL) traffic when additional uplink (UL) subframes are requested by the small cell.
- the method can further include muting data transmission of a DL subframe scheduled at a substantially similar time as a flexible subframe (FlexSF) of the small cell.
- the muted data transmission can use a regular subframe or a pre-configured almost blank subframe (ABS).
- the method can further include adapting the FlexSF of the UL-DL subframe configuration of the small cell to the UL-DL subframe configuration of the macro cell in a reduced UL-DL adaption set.
- the FlexSF of the small cell can be scheduled at a substantially similar time as an uplink (UL) subframe of the macro cell, and the FlexSF can be configured to vary as a DL subframe or an UL subframe based on the reduced UL-DL adaption set.
- the method can further include: Measuring node- to-node channel interference between small cells estimated from an uplink (UL) subframe of one small cell during a downlink (DL) subframe of another small cell; collecting node-to-node channel interference measurements at the small cell from at least one another small cell; determining interference management (IM) clusters based on the collected node-to-node channel interference measurements from small cells; and configuring the small cells in each IM cluster with a same UL-DL subframe configuration.
- the small cells generating interference on each other above a specified threshold can be grouped together in a same IM cluster or divided into isolated sub-clusters based on traffic conditions and transmission direction.
- the method can further include reducing a
- the method can further include, prior to offloading the traffic of the macro cell: Receiving, at the macro eNB, macro UE (MUE) traffic requirements including an amount of data to be transmitted or a quality of service (QoS) parameter for the packet; requesting channel quality measurements from the MUE for neighboring small cells; receiving channel quality measurements at the macro eNB from the MUE for the neighboring small cells; and determining the traffic of the macro cell to offload based on at least one of the MUE traffic requirements and the channel quality measurements from the MUE on the neighboring small cells.
- MUE macro UE
- QoS quality of service
- FIG. 14 illustrates example nodes and an example user equipment (UE) 720 in a heterogeneous network (HetNet).
- the nodes can include a macro node 710 (e.g., macro-eNB) or a low power node 730 (e.g., small node, small eNB, micro-eNB, a pico-eNB, a femto-eNB, a home eNB (HeNB), a remote radio head (RRH), a remote radio equipment (RRE), or a remote radio unit (RRU)).
- the macro node can be configured to communicate with the LPN via a backhaul link 750.
- the nodes can include a node device 712 and 732.
- the node device of the macro node can be configured to semi statically select an uplink-downlink (UL-DL) time-division duplexing (TDD) subframe configuration in a heterogeneous network (HetNet) to allow traffic adaption at a small cell.
- the node device 712 of the macro node can include a processing module 714 and a transceiver module 716.
- the processing module can be configured to determine traffic of the macro node to offload to a small node and to modify a macro UL-DL configuration to reduce the number of uplink subframes or downlink subframes.
- the offloaded traffic can include a transmission of a macro user equipment (MUE) packet.
- MUE macro user equipment
- the transceiver module can be configured to: Communicate with a MUE (e.g., UE 720), communicate the modified macro UL-DL configuration to the small node, and communicate offloaded traffic to the small node.
- a MUE e.g., UE 720
- the processing module 714 can be further operable to offload uplink (UL) traffic to the small node when a determination is made to increase a number of downlink (DL) subframes in the HetNet, or the processing module can be further operable to offload DL traffic to the small node when a determination is made to increase a number of UL subframes in the HetNet.
- the processing module can be further configured to monitor a specified traffic loading condition to trigger offloading of the traffic of the MUE to the small node, trigger muting a data transmission of a downlink (DL) subframe scheduled at a substantially similar time as a flexible subframe (FlexSF) of the small cell, trigger a request to the small node to use a UL-DL adaption set, trigger a request to the small node to perform cell clustering interference mitigation (CCIM), or trigger a request to the small node to reduce a transmission power on a FlexSF configured as the DL subframe at the small node.
- DL downlink
- FlexSF flexible subframe
- CCIM cell clustering interference mitigation
- the transceiver module 716 can be further configured to mute a data transmission of a DL subframe scheduled at a substantially similar time as a flexible subframe (FlexSF) of the small cell.
- the muted data can be further configured to mute a data transmission of a DL subframe scheduled at a substantially similar time as a flexible subframe (FlexSF) of the small cell.
- the transmission can use a regular subframe or an almost blank subframe (ABS).
- the FlexSF can include subframe 3, 4, 7, 8, or 9 (e.g., for legacy LTE UL-DL configurations), or a subframe configured to allow opposite transmission directions (e.g., for advanced UL-DL configurations).
- the transceiver module can be further configured to communicate with the small nodes 730 via X2 signaling or backhaul link 750 signaling via a wireless channel 752, wired connection or an optical fiber connection.
- the node 710 can include a base station (BS), a Node B (NB), an evolved Node B (eNB), a baseband unit (BBU), a remote radio head (RRH), a remote radio equipment (RRE), a remote radio unit (RRU), or a central processing module (CPM).
- the small node 730 can include a low power node (LPN), a micro eNB, a pico eNB, a femto-eNB, a home eNB (HeNB), a remote radio head (RRH), a remote radio equipment (RRE), or a remote radio unit (RRU).
- the transceiver module 716 can be further configured to: Receive MUE traffic requirements, request channel quality measurements from the MUE (e.g., UE 720) on neighboring small cells, and receive channel quality measurements of neighboring small cells from the MUE.
- the processing module can be further configured to determine the traffic to offload based on at least one of the channel quality measurements of neighboring small cells and MUE traffic requirements.
- the MUE traffic requirements can include an amount of data to be transmitted or a quality of service (QoS) parameter for the MUE packet.
- QoS quality of service
- the processing module can be further configured to offload the traffic to the small node using a semi-static mechanism or dynamic signaling.
- the semi-static mechanism can use enhanced inter-cell interference coordination (elCIC) with a large reference signal received power (RSRP) bias, overload indication (Ol), or high interference indication (HII).
- elCIC enhanced inter-cell interference coordination
- RSRP large reference signal received power
- Ol overload indication
- HII high interference indication
- the dynamic signaling can include physical or higher layer signaling indicating the offloading of the transmission.
- the node device 732 of the small node 730 can be configured to adapt uplink-downlink (UL-DL) time-division duplexing (TDD) subframe configurations in a heterogeneous network (HetNet).
- the node device of the small node can include a processing module 734 and a transceiver module 736.
- the transceiver module can be configured to receive a macro UL-DL configuration from a macro eNB.
- the processing module can be configured to generate a pico UL-DL adaption set based on the macro UL-DL configuration.
- the pico UL-DL adaption set can include a subset of available UL-DL
- the FlexSF can be configured to vary as one of a downlink (DL) subframe or an UL subframe based on the pico UL-DL adaption set.
- DL downlink
- UL uplink
- transceiver module 736 can be further configured to communicate with a macro user equipment (MUE) when traffic from the macro eNB is offloaded.
- the transceiver module can be further operable to receive UL traffic from the MUE to increase a DL packet throughput in the HetNet, or the transceiver module can be further operable to transmit the DL traffic to the MUE to increase a UL packet throughput in the HetNet.
- the transceiver module can be further configured to reduce a transmission power on traffic of the FlexSF configured as the DL subframe.
- the FlexSF can include subframe 3, 4, 7, 8, or 9 (e.g., for legacy LTE UL-DL configurations), or a subframe configured to allow opposite transmission directions (e.g., for advanced UL-DL configurations).
- the node device 732 can be further configured to use cell clustering interference mitigation (CCIM).
- CCIM cell clustering interference mitigation
- the transceiver module 736 can be further configured to measure node-to-node channel interference between small cells, communicate with at least one other small eNB, and collect node-to-node channel interference measurements from the at least one other small eNB.
- the processing module 734 can be further operable to determine interference mitigation (IM) cell clusters based on the collected node-to-node channel interference measurements from small cells and configure the small cells in each IM cell cluster with a same UL-DL subframe configuration.
- IM interference mitigation
- the small cells generating interference on each other above a specified threshold can be grouped together in a same IM cluster, and the specified threshold can be based on inter- cell coupling loss or an estimated node-to-node pathloss.
- the transceiver module can be further configured to communicate with the macro eNB 710 and other small eNBs via X2 signaling or backhaul link 750 signaling via a wireless channel 752, wired connection or an optical fiber connection.
- the UE 720 (e.g., wireless device) can include a transceiver module 724 and a processing module 722.
- the UE can be configured to communicate with the macro node and small node, which communication can include a MUE packet.
- the transceiver module and the processing module can be used to receive, send, and/or process the MUE packet.
- FIG. 15 provides an example illustration of the wireless device, such as an user equipment (UE), a mobile station (MS), a mobile wireless device, a mobile communication device, a tablet, a handset, or other type of wireless device.
- the wireless device can include one or more antennas configured to communicate with a node, such as a base station (BS), an evolved Node B (eNB), a baseband unit (BBU), a remote radio head (RRH), a remote radio equipment (RRE), a relay station (RS), a radio equipment (RE), or other type of wireless wide area network (WWAN) access point.
- the wireless device can be configured to communicate using at least one wireless communication standard including 3GPP LTE, WiMAX, High Speed Packet Access (HSPA), Bluetooth, and WiFi.
- the wireless device can communicate using separate antennas for each wireless communication standard or shared antennas for multiple wireless communication standards.
- the wireless device can communicate in a wireless local area network (WLAN), a wireless personal area network (WPAN), and/or a WWAN
- FIG. 15 also provides an illustration of a microphone and one or more speakers that can be used for audio input and output from the wireless device.
- the display screen may be a liquid crystal display (LCD) screen, or other type of display screen such as an organic light emitting diode (OLED) display.
- the display screen can be configured as a touch screen.
- the touch screen may use capacitive, resistive, or another type of touch screen technology.
- An application processor and a graphics processor can be coupled to internal memory to provide processing and display capabilities.
- a non-volatile memory port can also be used to provide data input/output options to a user.
- the non-volatile memory port may also be used to expand the memory capabilities of the wireless device.
- a keyboard may be integrated with the wireless device or wirelessly connected to the wireless device to provide additional user input.
- a virtual keyboard may also be provided using the touch screen.
- Various techniques, or certain aspects or portions thereof, may take the form of program code (i.e., instructions) embodied in tangible media, such as floppy diskettes, CD-ROMs, hard drives, non-transitory computer readable storage medium, or any other machine-readable storage medium wherein, when the program code is loaded into and executed by a machine, such as a computer, the machine becomes an apparatus for practicing the various techniques.
- a non- transitory computer readable storage medium can be a computer readable storage medium that does not include signal.
- the computing device may include a processor, a storage medium readable by the processor (including volatile and non-volatile memory and/or storage elements), at least one input device, and at least one output device.
- the volatile and non-volatile memory and/or storage elements may be a RAM, EPROM, flash drive, optical drive, magnetic hard drive, solid state drive, or other medium for storing electronic data.
- the node and wireless device may also include a transceiver module, a counter module, a processing module, and/or a clock module or timer module.
- One or more programs that may implement or utilize the various techniques described herein may use an application programming interface (API), reusable controls, and the like. Such programs may be implemented in a high level procedural or object oriented programming language to communicate with a computer system.
- API application programming interface
- program(s) may be implemented in assembly or machine language, if desired.
- the language may be a compiled or interpreted language, and combined with hardware implementations.
- modules may be implemented as a hardware circuit comprising custom VLSI circuits or gate arrays, off-the-shelf semiconductors such as logic chips, transistors, or other discrete components.
- a module may also be implemented in programmable hardware devices such as field programmable gate arrays, programmable array logic, programmable logic devices or the like.
- Modules may also be implemented in software for execution by various types of processors.
- An identified module of executable code may, for instance, comprise one or more physical or logical blocks of computer instructions, which may, for instance, be organized as an object, procedure, or function.
- the executables of an identified module need not be physically located together, but may comprise disparate instructions stored in different locations which, when joined logically together, comprise the module and achieve the stated purpose for the module.
- a module of executable code may be a single instruction, or many instructions, and may even be distributed over several different code segments, among different programs, and across several memory devices.
- operational data may be identified and illustrated herein within modules, and may be embodied in any suitable form and organized within any suitable type of data structure. The operational data may be collected as a single data set, or may be distributed over different locations including over different storage devices, and may exist, at least partially, merely as electronic signals on a system or network.
- the modules may be passive or active, including agents operable to perform desired functions.
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